Strategies and Cost of Recruitment of Middle-aged and Older Unmarried Women in a Cancer Screening Study

摘要: Objectives: We compared strategies and costs associated with recruiting unmarried middle-aged older women who partner (WPW) men (WPM) into an observational study about experiences cancer screening. Methods: used targeted respondent-driven sampling methods to recruit potential participants. Comparable recruitment were for WPW WPM. Results: During 25 months (June 1, 2003, through June 30, 2005), 773 screened eligibility; 630 enrolled (213 WPW, 417 WPM). Average staff time spent was 100 min per participant. There no differences by gender in average (WPW, 90 min; WPM, min). Print media the most efficient mode (time participant: 10 15 Recruitment differed ($140 $110 Costs print $10 $20 WPM. community events had higher ($490 $275 WPM) but yielded more less education lower incomes, identified as a racial or ethnic minority, self-reported disability. Compared likely identify minority self-report disability. Conclusions: trade-off between cost sample diversity different methods. The per-person lowest media, ensured diverse representation of heterosexual sexual women. (Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2007;16(12):2605–14)